PHOTOS: Community comes together for the fifth annual Christmas dinner in Concord

Carol Davis, left, watches as Nicole Leveque, right, gets a kiss from Patti Meier while saying goodbye at the fifth annual Christmas dinner at the Grappone Center on December 25, 2013. Leveque and Meier were both volunteering at the event. Davis attended the event and was also celebrating her birthday.

(ANDREA MORALES / Monitor staff)

Emma Virginia Rose McCormick, 2, sips the last of her juice while finishing up her meal at the fifth annual Christmas dinner at the Grappone Center on December 25, 2013.

In its fifth year, the community dinner at the Grappone Conference Center served 370 plates of warm holiday meals. More than 100 volunteers, including Courtyard Mariott staff, made it happen, walking around chatting up people and manning the food line when needed. “People come here and we try and treat them like the President of the United States,” said Steve Duprey, whose company was one of the sponsors of the event.